As she bends for a Kleenex in the dark, I am thinking of other girls: the girl I loved who fell in love with a lion--she lost her head over it--we just necked a lot; of the girl who fell in love with the tightrope, got addicted to getting high wired and nothing else was enough; all the beautiful, damaged women who have come through my life and I wonder what would have happened if I'd met them sooner, what they were like before they were so badly wounded. All this time I thought I'd been kissing, but maybe I'm always doing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, kissing dead girls in hopes that the heart will start again. Where there's breath, I've heard, there's hope. Daphne Gottlieb
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There are many lessons to be learned from this quote, yet I chose the one that I feel is the most important. The lesson is this: When you meet someone who has lost someone close to them, it’s easy to imagine what they are going through, what they are missing out on. You can imagine love lost. You can imagine life without.

You can imagine the feeling of being alone again after being with someone you loved. But, perhaps, what they are missing out on is not love at all. Perhaps what they need is just some kind of touch or kind words or some kind of support that will remind them of someone who loves them and that they do not have to go through this alone.

Source: Kissing Dead Girls

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